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Wasn't mine, that's fer sure. On some of mine, I milled a slot across the damper, in line with the notch. On others, I've relocated the timing pointer and mark on the damper to a more visible position. Incidentally, I run the 1275 damper on all of them, rather than the fragile stamped steel pulley of the earlier engines.
Jeff
 
AAAHHH, well I was looking on the Damper(?) the side furthest from the timing cover. I never even looked at the inside of the pulley wheel. And ZZZIMMY that is Itsy Bitsy, I will look again this weekend. Better half is not happy with time on car and time on drywall. Need to be out of basement and out from under bonnet or end up in dog house...
 
Arf arf. Glad you found it.
 
An easy fix is once you have found TDC etc. from under the car, create a new mark up on the topside with a stout piece of wire (coathanger??) looped, and attached by a timing chain cover bolt, file a notch in the pully, line up the wire pointer and voila! Now you can time it without laying down in front!
 
Guess what I've spent 4 hours looking for!
Used all the advice in this post, but one came to my attention, a 'dimple'. One thing I can see turn after turn is a small circle on the timing cover facing me, not on the underside where the notch would be, about half the size of a penny. Is my notch directly below that?
 
from what I remember and what the picture above shows, IIRC the noth is about 90 degrees (1/4 turn) in the clockwise direction before the dimple. SO if you get the dimple ligned up with the timing marker, gentley push the car so the pulley wheel turns counterclockwise about 1/4 turn, you should be in the general vicinity then...good luck it took me so long to find as well.
 
Once located put a dab of light color touch-up paint (kind with the "fingernail" brush in the top) on it. I kept a bottle of "whatever white" inna toolbox for just this on customers' cars. My cars were "converted" with a pointer on top side attached to the timing chain case.
 
Let me be absolutely sure then....
When at TDC, #1 is at compression and piston should be visible through spark plug hole.
Rotor should be pointing to #1 post (this is where I've had the trouble, it's been pointing to #2 and #3).
Re-connect battery, dizzy cap & leads.
Turn key.
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50-50 shot at being on compression stroke without a bit more fussing: the plugs out, VC off, turn engine by hand (in proper rotation, clockwise from front) until you see the intake valve close. Now you are heading to #1 TDC compression. Set the timing mark to around 8 BTDC. Dizzy rotor 'should' be at the #1 cap 'trode then. If not, either the wires have been juggled or the diz has been rotated. You said the diz is in the "original" position and the car ran, so use whichever cap hole the rotor points to as #1 and go counter clockwise to firing order 1-3-4-2.

...and Cuthbert's th' parrot o' yer great aunt. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
one easy way to find the "groove" is to take white chalk and go all the way around the pulley with it and then lightly wipe it off. Itwill stay in the groove making it easy to see. one you have done that, use white paint after washing out the chalk and you will have a sedmi-permanent timing mark!
 
is it possible for the dizzy to be 1 tooth off and run like dirt, if at all.
 
Of course but you would fix it by twisting the dizzy further..
 
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But then wouldn't your plug leads be off(depending of course how far out it was) or am I just floggging a dead horse?
 
No think not. think your dizzy would just be not pointing at number one for the first wire. It would point that direction but one tooth away.
 
would that make it too far advanced if it was between #1 and #2 ?
 
Not if it was off one tooth on the dizzy gear, if timeing chain is off one tooth there is no hope.
 
And that is why it needs to be checked with a straight edge half a dozen times from several angles and hopefully by a couple different folks. Yep been there done that. It is so easy to get it one tooth off.
 
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And that is why it needs to be checked with a straight edge half a dozen times from several angles and hopefully by a couple different folks. Yep been there done that. It is so easy to get it one tooth off.

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so could it be 1 tooth off and #1 at tdc where would the timing marks on the crank pulley and would #1/4 still be on the top of the flywheel /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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